Month: February 2017

“Palpable tension & touchingly heart-breaking moments” THEY SAY Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she’s cut herself off from everything but her one true love – drink. Until she’s forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy. Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and left for…

It’s been another busy week of flying fingers! I put aside my current manuscript so that I could concentrate on the structural edits for the first book that will be published by the fabulous Bookouture. Luckily, there was nothing too scary involved, but it’s another step in the process of smoothing a novel and…

Authors reveal the images that inspired 100,000 words THIS WEEK: Jane Cable Jane Cable is a writer of romantic novels with a twist of mystery. Her first, The Cheesemaker’s House, was a finalist in the Alan Titchmarsh Show’s People’s Novelist competition and won the Words for the Wounded Independent Novel Award in 2015. She is…

“The perfect read to while away a wet, windy & thoroughly miserable day” THEY SAY Reeling from a brutal attack that leaves her best friend dead and her badly injured, Lisa Fulbrook flees to the countryside to recuperate. With only vague memories of the event, she isolates herself from her friends and family, content to…

“The plot is more twisted & knotted than a ball of string after the cat’s been at it” THEY SAY YOU HAVE SIX SECONDS TO READ THIS MESSAGE… The body of a 15-year-old is found hours after she sends a desperate message to her friends. It looks like suicide, until a second girl disappears. This time,…

This is the magical moment when the novel moves from something flat to something rounded and real which leaps from the page. What have I been up to this week? I’ll be honest: writing, writing, more writing. At 5.30am I’ve been writing. At 10pm I’ve been writing. I’ve even woken up at 2am, and take…

Authors reveal the images that inspired 100,000 words THIS WEEK: Kirsty Ferry Kirsty Ferry is from the North East of England and writes for award-winning romance publishers Choc Lit. She has also published other novels with a North East flavour, and written a dark, Gothic fairy-tale under the name of Cathryn Ramsay. Kirsty has had…